(posted w/permission of interest group chair)
POST DOCTORAL - FACULTY RESEARCH ASSISTANT SOUGHT
Semantic Web Research
Advisor: Prof. J. Hendler, University of Maryland
A post-doctoral research position is available with the Maryland
Information and Network Dynamics (MIND) laboratory at the University
of Maryland College Park (UMCP). The position focuses on Semantic
Web Research, with a preferred interest in ontologies, logic and
theorem proving, or the use of rules on the web. Position
responsibilities include working with a research group comprised of
both graduate and undergraduate researchers. The Postdoc would be
expected to interact with students doing both cutting edge research
and developing state-of-the-art implementations and demonstrations.
Expectations are for the postdoc to spend some of their time
publishing and otherwise promoting both their own work and that done
with the group, as well as programming and/or providing guidance to
programmers.
The University of Maryland MIND laboratory intends to remain one of
the top semantic web research groups in the world, building on our
previous work in the development of the SHOE language (the first
semantic web ontology language), the PARKA-DB backend for knowledge
representation languages, and a number of semantic-web interface
tools released to the web development community. Our work continues
with leadership in the web ontology area, exploration of markup tools
and visualization techniques for semantic web documents, and new work
in the use of semantic web languages in support of scientific
research. The group's advisor, Jim Hendler, was the originator of
the DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML) initiative, was an author of
the Scientific American article "The Semantic Web" (w/Tim Berners-Lee
and Ora Lassila), and currently cochairs the W3C Web Ontology Working
Group.
The idea candidate should have familiarity with:
i. The RDF language
ii. DAML+OIL and/or SHOE
iii. Web architecture and/or web-based programming
iv. XML, web services and other current "hot" web topics
iv. Semantic Web research
The position requires a PhD in Computer Science or a related field,
although candidates who are "All but Dissertation" will be
considered. The position is expected to be a 2-3 year appointment.
Interested Candidates should contact
Professor James Hendler
Dept of Computer Science
Univ of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
hendler@cs.umd.edu
(or contact jhendler on IRC server irc.openprojects.net port 6667
channel #rdfig)
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Professor James Hendler hendler@cs.umd.edu
Director, Semantic Web and Agent Technologies 301-405-2696
Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab. 301-405-6707 (Fax)
AV Williams Building, Univ of Maryland College Park, MD 20742
http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/hendler